Gia Marotta

Gia Marotta’s plays have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theater, Dixon Place, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Florida Atlantic Theatre Lab, The Midtown International Theatre Festival, Fringe NYC, Six Figures, the Centre x Centre Festival (Kigali, Rwanda), 14/48 Austin, Frontera Fest, and the Cohen New Works Festival, among others. Her play, 381 Bleecker, was on the 2016 Kilroys List, Steppenwolf’s “The Mix,” and was a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She has devised original plays, musicals, films and dance/theater with youth in New York City, St. Louis, Senegal, and in Kigali, Rwanda, where she co-founded and directed an interdisciplinary arts program for the community-based HIV initiative, WE-ACTx. She holds a B.A. in Theater...

Gia Marotta’s plays have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theater, Dixon Place, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Florida Atlantic Theatre Lab, The Midtown International Theatre Festival, Fringe NYC, Six Figures, the Centre x Centre Festival (Kigali, Rwanda), 14/48 Austin, Frontera Fest, and the Cohen New Works Festival, among others. Her play, 381 Bleecker, was on the 2016 Kilroys List, Steppenwolf’s “The Mix,” and was a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She has devised original plays, musicals, films and dance/theater with youth in New York City, St. Louis, Senegal, and in Kigali, Rwanda, where she co-founded and directed an interdisciplinary arts program for the community-based HIV initiative, WE-ACTx. She holds a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from UT-Austin.

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Scripts

The Caregiving Project

by Gia Marotta

Cast Size
1
Genre
experimental

The Caregiving Project is an interactive solo work that weaves together autobiographical storytelling, live audience interview, and other participatory performance techniques to investigate the complexities of caregiving in the many ways it appears in our lives. The audience generates the majority of the text in the live moment of the performance, guided by the malleable framework of the performer's questions...

The Caregiving Project is an interactive solo work that weaves together autobiographical storytelling, live audience interview, and other participatory performance techniques to investigate the complexities of caregiving in the many ways it appears in our lives. The audience generates the majority of the text in the live moment of the performance, guided by the malleable framework of the performer's questions and stories.

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381 BLEECKER

by Gia Marotta

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

It’s 2015, and Meg, an avant-garde choreographer in her early 60s, is losing the West Village apartment where she’s spent her entire adult life. When her sister, Ellen, shows up with her son, David, to help Meg pack, the two women must reckon with a complicated snarl of old wounds connected to their brother’s battle with AIDS in the 1980s.

It’s 2015, and Meg, an avant-garde choreographer in her early 60s, is losing the West Village apartment where she’s spent her entire adult life. When her sister, Ellen, shows up with her son, David, to help Meg pack, the two women must reckon with a complicated snarl of old wounds connected to their brother’s battle with AIDS in the 1980s.

WHILE I'VE GOT YOU HERE--

by Gia Marotta

Cast Size
6—10
Genre
experimental

WHILE I'VE GOT YOU HERE-- is a non-linear performance text that interrogates the nature of the self—and of consciousness—by fracturing a single person’s embodied experience of the past and present into the bodies and voices of ten different performers.

WHILE I'VE GOT YOU HERE-- is a non-linear performance text that interrogates the nature of the self—and of consciousness—by fracturing a single person’s embodied experience of the past and present into the bodies and voices of ten different performers.